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Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

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In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Dub)

OBERST & BUCHNER on:
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/oberst_und_buchner
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/OberstBuchner
- SoundCloud: @buchneroberst

HOW I MET THE BASS on:
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/howimetthebass
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/howimetthebass
- Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass

3 QUESTIONS to OBERST & BUCHNER:

Q: Let's get into the mood for your mix. Why did you choose these tracks and how did they connect you with the bass once?

A: The mix shows our transition from rock to electronic music. It consists of tracks from Indie, ambient rock, progressive- and postrock, as well as different genres of electronica. It resonates influences that guided us from our band era 2005-2009 to electronic music. At this time we also tried to incorporate synths and synthetic drums to our post-rock projects clearly influenced by acts like Radiohead, the Notwist or John Frusciante to name a few. Maybe one realises our shift from rock to electronic music with acts like modeselektor, console or pantha du prince, who became relevant for us because they didn’t change aesthetics in terms of atmosphere of our former musical taste and outcome. Without forgetting the routes in the epic sound walls of 2010s postrock and indie hymns - from where we derive as musicians - we still try to incorporate those elements into our music. 

Q: Reflecting the past 2+ years of pandemic: What did you do in this time and how did you handle lockdown and creativity in one?

A: On the one hand, the pandemic finally gave us the time to do music again, and realize a very big project like our second album „marble arch“. Since we normally both have day jobs beside the Oberst & Buchner project and the Heimlich Musik label, we finally had the freedom to get up in the morning and jam the whole day. We were not on the road at weekends so weekends where dedicated to producing music. In the first three weeks of lockdown we finished 10 remixes and an EP. Things that would have taken us a year normally. On the other hand it was hard to gain creativity for club music when clubs where closed and the most important part of clubbing, which is „being in a club“ was missing. 

Q: Talking about future projects: What's on the way, what's coming next?

A: Up next we release a remix for Dina Summer (Kalipo & Local Suicide) on Iptamenos Records. Currently we are working on an EP with vocalists Tobias Koett and Toby Whyle, And preparing remixes for Tosca on K7! an the band Nihils.

Oberst & Buchner - HOW I MET THE BASS #224

DJ SET de @luismasi grabado en Pampa Warro en Fuego Austral 2024, regional sudamericano de Burning Man.

Luis Masi - Pampa Warro - Fuego Austral 2024

I've done a little Remix of the Cantina Band song because everybody always asks me to play this one when I'm DJing. I couldn't find a nice Club Remix yet. So here we go :-) For booking requests contact: booking@soundnomaden.com

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/42305e'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

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Star Wars - Cantina Band (Electro Swing Remix)

DJ SET de @pandj22 grabado en Pampa Warro en Fuego Austral 2024, regional sudamericano de Burning Man.

Pandj - Pampa Warro - Fuego Austral 2024

Late Night Tales Groove Armada

Another weekend and another song I've being playing with. Have always been a big fan of DM and it reminds me of great friends such as Luli vp, this one is devoted to her :D 

Ahh and a big thank to Sebas who helped me to get here.

Never Let Me Down Again (A&B Edit)

Here is the DJ Set I played at Palast on Fusion Festival 2018. Thanx to everybody who danced with me until the morning. Enjoy!

Sound Nomaden - Fusion Festival 2018 Set (Palast)

Thank you Fusion Festival!!! I had such a good time with you last night at the Palast stage. Thanx so much to all the lovely beautiful people that danced with me <3 For booking requests contact: booking at soundnomaden.com

Sound Nomaden - Fusion Festival 2019 Set (Palast)

To celebrate the drop of our brand new Poolside Suits and our upcoming start of summer shindig at Burleigh Pavilion, we've invited our very own homie Mister Bennetts to provide us with a marathon mixtape to soundtrack our sun-dazed saunter to summer. 

After falling in love with Bali during his pro-surfing days, Adam made the permanent move abroad in search of world class waves, a DJ residency and all-you-can-eat Nasi Goreng.

Finding the time between surfing by day and DJing at Bali's best beachclubs by night, Mr Bennetts joins us for 3 hours of power recorded live at Mrs Sippy Bali.

https://barneycools.com/blogs/lifestyle/poolside-etiquette-guest-mixtape-23

Barney Cools | Poolside Etiquette Guest Mixtape 23: Mister Bennetts

Our multi instrumentalist Argentinian papucho was with us for the last days of September, celebrating self love @ Love Weekend

Big 🤎 to @ulize 

photo frog: @lotte-ahoi

Ulises @ Love Weekend 2020 Friday Sunset

I've been djing for a while now.

I only want recognize some of my best influences: Fred Falk, Poolside, Tycho, Bonobo, Parra for Cuva, Moullinex, Holy Ghost!, HNNY, Todd Terje, Solomun, GoldRoom, Flight Facilities, The Twelves, Soulwax, LNTG, Tiger and Woods, RAC, Gigamesh, Be Svendsen. 

And to specially thank for all these recordings to Brian Bray!

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